Revised version of Evidence of Influences on John Kennedy Toole

Version 1.2 of Evidence of influences on John Kennedy Toole's "A Confederacy of Dunces," including Geoffrey Chaucer has been posted this morning.

The main reason that I have updated the paper is because I wanted to list more of the books that John Kennedy Toole had in his library. As I have worked on the "Occasional Series of Ideas for Papers on John Kennedy Toole" in this blog, I have discovered that some books that I now think are productive to John Kennedy Toole research were not listed in Evidence of Influences, version 1.1. To repair that oversight, I have produced version 1.2 of the paper. In order to preserve pagination of the other material, I have added the book list to an appendix. I will also paste that bibliography below.

Vernon

Appendix A: More books listed in the Toole library


In the main text of this paper, this author listed in a footnote at the end of Part 1 books from the Faust bibliography of Toole’s library that he thought might be of interest to future researchers. He did not list all books that predated the writing of Confederacy. Since then, at least one of the neglected books has yielded interesting interpretations, so in the interest of further research, here are more pre-1964 books. They have been placed in this appendix so as to preserve the pagination between 1.1 and 1.2.

Allen, Frederick Lewis. The Big Change. New York: Bantam, 1961.
Anthony, Katherine. Queen Elizabeth. New York: Knopf, 1929.
Graves, Robert. Goodbye to All That. New York: Doubleday, 1957.
Kennedy, Gail. Pragmatism and American Culture. Boston: Heath, 1950.
McCarthy, Mary. The Group. New York: Harcourt, Brace, and World, 1963.
Spencer, Edmund. The political works of Edmund Spencer. New York: Oxford UP, 1921.
Tillyard, E. M. W. Elizabethan World Picture. London: Chatto and Windus, 1956.
Vidal, Gore. A Thirsty Evil. New York: Signet NAL, 1958.
Warren, Robert Penn. All the King’s Men. New York: Modern Library, 1953.